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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
On Kilgrave: Eh, I always found him to be a discount version of the Shadow King, myself.
Watch SymphogearPsychic foe of the X-Men, is essentially a psychic, telepathic parasite who's a thinly-veiled metaphor for depression. Also main antagonist in Legion
"All you Fascists bound to lose."“We knew when we did that, it offered some possibilities to anyone who wanted possibilities.”
Edited by alliterator on Jun 13th 2019 at 12:13:57 PM
Shadow King is actually pretty shit himself. Because he had a lot of big stories in the early 90s when coherence went out the window.
He was supposed to be built up to be the biggest X-Men villain that would tie together every mutant group into one huge conflict and then that didn't happen.
Edited by Bocaj on Jun 13th 2019 at 4:07:47 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYes but it was kind of shit.
He just made everyone dress sexy for a while.
EVIL SEXY.
Edited by Bocaj on Jun 13th 2019 at 4:11:50 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersShadow King is one of my favorite X-men villains, but he's definitely misused. His finest hour was probably Joe Kelly's Psi-Wars (back when he was against Psylocke), but he's had his moments (fighting the Phoenix in the 30's, taking hold of Karma, possessing alternate-reality Xavier).
The concept of the character is just fascinating to me. He's a psychic parasite with no fixed form who feeds off the despair of others to fuel himself as a sort of avatar of misery, sapping away their willpower and every living strength. As such, he can never be really destroyed, only temporarily repelled, but he will always return. You can never destroy the Shadow King because he'll always be here as long as there is human misery to call upon him.
He's also a very self-evident allegorical character for the concept of depression (which is why he's almost always beaten in the astral plane after the character confronts his inner demons), and as someone who has depression and dysthymia (or Persistent Depressive Disorder), I always found him rather familiar to me.
There are some fun side-things too, like the fact the Shadow King is effectively a astral creature and thus alien to our pleasures of the flesh, meaning that when he takes control of people's bodies he gorges himself in said pleasures (usually food, but "pleasures of the flesh" is a wide definition).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."More recently, after Xavier's death, the Shadow King and Astral Xavier dueled for centuries (well, centuries their time, years our time) on the Astral Plane, which eventually spilled out onto the real world. Xavier eventually defeated him and even got a new body, courtesy of Fantomex.
Edited by alliterator on Jun 13th 2019 at 3:31:11 AM
He was also a Monster of the Week for Wolverine and the X-Men (which I feel is very underrated as an X-Men TV show).
The legend has returned.Purple Man's threat level tends to be far more personal, barring storylines where bigger and badder villains exploit him.
Shadow King is in the running for Arch-Enemy to Professor Xavier, the most powerful telepath in the world.
Disgusted, but not surprisedHuh I think I remember him from an episode of X-Men Evolution from a Storm-centric episode.
Hmmmh if he could actually give Storm some shit for herself he could be useful even if he's already used in Legion.
Also from what I read Thanos' overpopulation spiel was from the comics. Apparently it was originally Death who believed the universe was overpopulated & headed for mass extinction so she was the reason why Thanos did the original snap.
So they kinda composited Death & Thanos for the movies.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

Plot twist:
Talos drinking a soft drink is not actually a Pulp Fiction reference but a Reservoir Dogs reference.